Post by Logan on Jan 12, 2016 5:46:49 GMT -6
Detroit's mayor will tour some of the city's public schools amid so-called sick-outs by teachers that at times have forced some schools to shut down.
Mayor Mike Duggan will visit the schools with city health and buildings officials on Tuesday morning after complaints from the district teachers union that some have mold and are infested with rodents.
The teachers union, the Detroit Federation of Teachers, is not part of the sick-out, which teachers have undertaken to protest their pay and call for smaller class sizes, among other things. But union officials complained Monday about conditions in the schools after about half of them had to close because of a wave of teacher absences described by an activist as "rolling strikes."
"This is why those sick-outs happened," the union's interim president, Ivy Bailey, told reporters while displaying photographs of mold in schools.
Continue reading at abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detroit-mayor-tour-schools-teachers-complaints-36229740 .
Mayor Mike Duggan will visit the schools with city health and buildings officials on Tuesday morning after complaints from the district teachers union that some have mold and are infested with rodents.
The teachers union, the Detroit Federation of Teachers, is not part of the sick-out, which teachers have undertaken to protest their pay and call for smaller class sizes, among other things. But union officials complained Monday about conditions in the schools after about half of them had to close because of a wave of teacher absences described by an activist as "rolling strikes."
"This is why those sick-outs happened," the union's interim president, Ivy Bailey, told reporters while displaying photographs of mold in schools.
Continue reading at abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/detroit-mayor-tour-schools-teachers-complaints-36229740 .